an article explaining why GNOME should support SSD, but also arguing against the reasons often given for why they shouldn’t

“One ICE agent said if we let you see your clients, we would have to let all the attorneys see their clients, and imagine the chaos,” said another attorney who asked not to be named. “And I said to that person, yeah, you do have to let all the attorneys see their clients. You do have to accommodate that. That’s the Constitution. You chose to put them here. I didn’t bring this guy here, you did.”

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I’m going to change the countertops soon so I wasn’t super concientious about the caulking job.

The richest people on the planet are far more likely to be in power politically than everyone else, Oxfam’s annual inequality report found.

I only want to use it for facebook marketplace, but jeez i didnt know they were taking it this far with this crap…

“—a breakthrough that could significantly advance clean energy technologies and consumer electronics such as motors, robotics, MRI machines, data storage and smart phones.”

Remember when Apex Legends was shadow dropped? It’s a risky move for such a high-profile game to skip all the pre-release marketing hype entirely, but it paid off, and it’s clear why Respawn went that route—"photoreal PvP hero shooter” was an eyeroll-inducing prospect even back in 2019, so letting the game speak for itself short-circuited any pre-release angst.

On Monday, January 5, APD officers responded to a disturbance call at 4:35 a.m. in the 6100 block of Blue Stem Trail, a West Oak Hill Austin neighborhood, according to a statement from police. Although they found no ongoing disturbance, officers identified a woman with an Administrative Warrant issued by ICE.

Legendary rocker Bruce Springsteen delivered an impassioned condemnation of the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement during a surprise 75-minute performance Saturday night at the Light of Day benefit concert in Red Bank, New Jersey.

Someone mentioned this on a the recent discussions about Nexus Mods cancelling their Linux mod loader, and after trying it out I thought it was worth making a dedicated post about it.

January 18, 2026

On Tuesday morning, a Venezuelan couple came to Jane Graupman’s office sobbing over the unknown fate of their 20-year-old son, who had been taken away by masked federal agents.

It’s very nice to not have a dozen different versions of the same distro to parse through and figure out that are simply the same distro with a different DE. Moreover, very few of them offer this many options.

Kristi Noem, the homeland security secretary, said officers had not used pepper spray and similar measures limited by a judge’s order, then was confronted with a video that showed chemical agents deployed.

A New Hampshire Episcopal bishop has garnered national attention for warning his clergy to finalize their wills and affairs, preparing for a “new era of martyrdom.”

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At least 21 people have died and many more have been injured after the derailment of an Iryo train with 300 passengers on board in Adamuz, which crossed into the adjacent track and collided with an AVE train on the Madrid-Huelva route.

State media said on Saturday that the army took over the northern city of Tabqa and its adjacent dam, as well as the major Freedom dam, formerly known as the Baath, west of the Syrian city of Raqaa. It came despite US calls to halt the advance.

As protests in Minnesota continue amid ongoing tension between demonstrators and federal agents in the area, Gov. Tim Walz and local safety officials announced Jan. 17 that the Minnesota National Guard has been “mobilized” and is on standby if needed.

The firm’s senior financial strategist is concerned the advancements in the field of quantum computing will break Bitcoin.

Threads’ daily mobile usage has quietly surpassed X as Meta leans on cross-promotion, creator tools and fast feature rollouts — even as X faces fresh controversies

IMHO really rare, but then happened with several eggs from the same batch.

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It also, consequently, makes the advertisements which they show to you far less valuable. So this feature is not widely advertised.

The latest OS updates for Windows 11 introduces two major bugs that caused issues with shutting down your PC or signing into your PC using Remote Desktop.

The European Commission is preparing a strategy to boost open-source technology and achieve technological sovereignty by reducing dependence on proprietary technology.

Free online knowledge base displaced giants like Encyclopædia Britannica and Microsoft Encarta in the public psyche.

Goose is the only non-passerine emoji I have

I’m going through a rough spot and they haven’t left my side🤎🖤🤍

ReactOS as the long-in-development “open-source Windows” project has been on quite a roll recently. Beyond a big Windows NT 6 compatibility improvement and fixing a very annoying usability issue, for this third week of the year there is another big change landing: a significant improvement in networking performance on ReactOS.

”Share a Disney quote that sums up how you’re feeling right now!”

Midwives have been told about the benefits of “close relative marriage” in training documents that minimise the risks to couples’ children.

The Pentagon has ordered 1,500 US troops based in Alaska to prepare to deploy to Minnesota as a precautionary measure in case the administration decides to send them, a US official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The unit of the 11th Airborne Division is a cold-weather unit nicknamed “The Arctic Angels.”

Epstein invited her to come sit down next to him. “He explained that he was a philanthropist, known by so many people, a very generous man, and had sent so many young people to university, often the kids of women he’d been at school with. I completely believed him.”

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Establishment Democrats are rejecting an increasingly popular position by refusing to take a bold stance that happens to be good politics.

The Working Families Party launched a website where, among other efforts, voters can request refunds from Fetterman’s campaign.